Bulletin Spring‧Summer 2004

Guangzhou: At the Whampao Military Academy Hong Kong: On board the Adventure Ship Extracurricular Aptitude Si Yu's leadership skills and capacity for teamwork have been sufficiently drilled through her participation in extracurricular activities at the University. She h a s u n d e r g o ne we e k - l o ng military training at the famous Whampao Military Academy in Guangzhou, learnt to climb a rock moun t a i n, among other things, at an outward-bound leadership training camp, lived on board a ship and jumped from poop to sea on an Adventure Ship Programme, and translated the undergraduate prospectus with two other students one summer at Southeast University in Nanjing. She also became a committee member of the Leadership Training Society of United College. In that capacity, she helped organize a leadership training workshop jointly with the Hong Kong New Generation Cultural Association, and a volunteer work programme for new immigrants from the mainland jointly with the Lutheran Tai Wo Youth Service Centre. The experience helped to hone her organizational skills as she had to manage every detail from planning to the actual running of the programme. Si Yu also organized a geographic field trip to Lamma Island and a Hong Kong secondary school science competition as president of the Hong Kong Science Talent Society. Nanjing: Completing summer internship Fung Si Yu, Hong Kong Rhodes Scholar 2004 3 9